SF News Santa Clara County Begins Running Low on ICU Beds Amid COVID Surge Santa Clara County's ICU bed capacity was rapidly filling up this week amid a surge in COVID cases around the region.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Candelabra Tree Survives CZU Fires There's no rain in the forecast for the next week or two, an apartment fire displaced 17 in Fremont, and park rangers have reached the Candelabra Tree in Butano State Park in San Mateo County and say it is mostly unscathed from the recent CZU fires.
SF News Thanksgiving Links: UCSF Workers to Be Among First In Country to Get Pfizer Vaccine Glide Memorial Church's annual Thanksgiving meal is happening outdoors, UCSF is among seven CA hospitals first in line for the COVID vaccine, and the Golden Gate Bridge parking lots are closed through the weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Stabbing Suspect Had Been Deported Three Times Homeless San Jose murder suspect Fernando Jesus Lopez was reportedly deported three times, BART has reached an agreement with its unions, and ne'er-do-wells are shooting Bernal outdoor diners with paintballs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Own Mary Risley Would Like to Remind All Amateur Cooks: 'Just Put the Fu**ing Turkey In the Oven' It's been a few years since SFist has reposted local cooking school founder Mary Risley's delightful advice for roasting a Thanksgiving turkey — and it bears repeating in a year when a lot of people may be trying to do this for the first time at home and not with family.
Arts & Entertainment Take a Walking Tour of SF's Illuminated Art Installations This Holiday Season Illuminate SF, the organization that brought us The Bay Lights on the Bay Bridge, has a "Festival of Light" this holiday season that spans many corners of the city — and it's the perfect excuse for a pandemic-friendly urban hike after dark.
SF News As COVID Surge Hits Bay Area Hospitals, Health Officials Brace for the Worst Several weeks after public health officials around the Bay began sounding alarm bells about upticks in case numbers, the resulting uptick in cases requiring hospitalization is now happening in force at hospitals around the region.
Business & Tech Salesforce May Be Buying Slack, and Slack's Stock Price Is Going Nuts San Francisco-based Salesforce is reportedly in advanced negotiations to acquire workplace messaging app Slack, in the latest of a flurry of year-end mergers and acquisitions.
SF News CHP Begins Holiday Crackdown on Unsafe Drivers California Highway Patrol officers will be out in force beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, pulling over speeders and unsafe drivers in the hope of preventing tragedies on the road.
SF News Uptick In Gang Violence on Both Sides of Bay Brings SF's Homicide Count to 45 San Francisco's homicide count has already surpassed last year's total of 41, hitting 45 as of last week with the fatal killings of Lamar Williams and Demaree Hampton in Hunters Point.
SF News Wednesday Morning What's Up: Muni Operator Dies of COVID Complications A Muni operator has died from COVID complications, the homeless man suspected in a fatal Sunday stabbing at a San Jose shelter had been jailed recently for domestic violence, and the remains of a missing woman were found in the Russian River.
SF News Day Around the Bay: No Changes to Bay Area County Tier Statuses A married couple from the Central Valley was convicted for the 2019 road-rage shooting of Raul Garcia, Meals on Wheels just opened a new SF facility, and SF has avoided a move to the "Purple" tier at least for a few days.
SF News Massive Fraud Scheme Netted 'Hundreds of Millions' For CA Unemployment Scammers Using Prison Inmates' Names A scam involving the names and identities of tens of thousands of California prison inmates — including convicted wife murderer Scott Peterson — has apparently enabled scammers and some inmates themselves to make off with at least $140 million.
SF News History Reminder: The 1918 Flu Came Roaring Back In January In San Francisco Because People Stopped Wearing Masks Now as we're at least ankle-deep in a growing surge of cases in the Bay Area, it's worth remembering that San Francisco suffered its worst part of the last pandemic after the holidays, in January 1919, when a lot of people were sick of wearing masks.
Arts & Entertainment Winona Ryder Sells Union Street Home She Bought In 1995 Actress Winona Ryder is selling a San Francisco home that many San Franciscans likely didn't know she owned — since she bought it at the height of her fame in the mid-1990s and isn't often spotted around town these days.
SF Politics Tuesday Morning Topline: Pressure Builds For Newsom's Senate Pick San Francisco is still expected to move into the "Purple" tier this week (or today), Elon Musk just overtook Bill Gates as the second-richest person in the world, and California just broke its own record again for new daily COVID cases with over 20,000.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dianne Feinstein Steps Down From Judiciary Committee Role Sen. Dianne Feinstein has caved to pressure from the Left and will remove herself from a powerful Senate committee, the Twin Peaks tunnel will begin its expensive fix next week, and the GSA has given Biden the transition nod at last.
SF Politics SF District Attorney Files Manslaughter Charges Against Cop In 2017 Shooting For what's believed to be the first time, a San Francisco district attorney has filed a homicide charge against a police officer for shooting a citizen while in the line of duty.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Server Blames Indoor Dining for Her COVID Infection; Contact Tracing In SF Has Failed to Identify Hot Spots San Francisco has 244 people working on contact tracing, and yet the data on where COVID cases are largely coming from remains slim — still, indoor activities like dining and house parties *seem* to be fueling some of the current surge.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cult Beer Pliny the Younger Won't Have Its Usual Splashy Release in 2021, But Bottles Will Be Sold Online For First Time Russian River Brewing just announced that its now annual tradition of releasing its obsessed-over triple IPA Pliny the Younger won't be happening in February like it usually does — with all the incumbent release parties and lines of beer geeks.
Arts & Entertainment Like Everything Else, Macy's Holiday Windows Are Going Virtual With Videos of Adoptable Kittens and Puppies The annual tradition of seeing adoptable puppies and kittens in the windows of Macy's in Union Square, courtesy of the SPCA, will be more of a virtual affair this year.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Three of Newsom's Kids Exposed to COVID That major fire in Berkeley is still active, two people were killed in a stabbing during a religious service at a San Jose church Sunday night, and three of Gov. Gavin Newsom's four kids were recently exposed to a COVID-positive CHP officer.
Arts & Entertainment Orphaned Mountain Lion 'Captain Cal' and Adopted Sisters Head to Columbus Zoo Three orphaned mountain lion kittens rescued during the Zogg Fire in Shasta County last month are heading to a new home in Ohio.
SF News SFMTA Reveals Blunder In Twin Peaks Tunnel That Will Cost 'Tens of Millions of Dollars' The SFMTA brass got a talking-to from the Board of Supervisors this week about their inability to complete big projects on time and on budget — and the scolding came after the revelation of another blunder by staff.
SF News San Francisco Likely Slipping Into 'Purple' Tier Next Week, Curfew to Follow SF is likely to join the 41 counties in the "Purple" tier by next week, and with that comes the shutdown of all gyms, movie theaters, and places of worship once again.
